CAMERON v. STATE

Nos. 325, 497, September Term, 1994.

102 Md. App. 600 (1994)

JOHN JEFFREY CAMERON v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

December 29, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Burns, Jr., Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Mary Ann Ince, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore and Lawrence V. Kelly, State's Atty. for Allegany County, Cumberland, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before ALPERT, HARRELL and HOLLANDER, JJ.


ALPERT, Judge.

Lest we be misunderstood by our ultimate holding, we declare at the outset that an intoxicated litigant who disrupts the proceedings of the court by contumacious or stupefied conduct may be held in contempt of court.

Appellant, John Jeffrey Cameron, appeals two judgments entered by the Circuit Court for Allegany County, the first finding him in contempt for appearing in court in an intoxicated condition and the second denying his motion to dismiss...

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